Guest Speaker
Alia Gilani
Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist
Alia is a Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities and diabetes. She helped established and run a bi-lingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002. This was the “MELT” service (Minority Ethnic Long Term medicines Service).
She is involved in healthcare professional’s education by delivering lectures both locally and nationally on topics ranging from, managing diabetes during Ramadan to tackling health and ethnic inequalities. She is on the editorial board of Diabetes in Primary Care Journal and contributes to several journals by writing articles on diabetes related topics.
Alia currently works freelance for the NHS and for companies delivering education around the UK to healthcare professionals.